And notice none of the contact apps will ever give you the name of the person.
As your mention noting solid are you talking about Death? So is this more then normal in flu season, and other cause normal during same calander period last year?
Well do you expect your local supermarket that you frequent weekly to tell you the name of a person who tested positive for corona?
Put it this way: IF, totally hypothetical, I got it. I would feel obligated to tell every person I know I came into direct contact with(not just in passing), customers, friends and places I spend time at, that I had it and they should get tested. It just feels like that would be the right thing to do.
TFT
Let's say a restaurant server tested positive, and went home to quarantine. Should the restaurant owner put the server's picture on the front door, and say if you were served by this person, go get tested? Should the restaurant owner look at all the receipts from the server's shifts the prior 3-4 weeks, call the credit card company used to pay, explain the situation, and ask for the cardholder's phone number to contact them? (good luck with that). What about the customers who paid cash and there is no record of?
What about the supermarket check out person that you interact with fairly closely and touches all your bags and food? What should the market do if they tested positive?
straight from the CDC:: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
34,200 deaths 2018-2019 flue season. (looking at other numbers this seems like a typical year)
Only a second grade drop out thinks 34,200 is about equal to 184,000.
HIPPA Violation to tell, could be costly if they gave out personal medical info.
ChopDoc, aka SawDeTheBone I am sure would agree. Wonder if he is busy chopping of limb on trees, or people?
Have u ever been right about anything, ever. Here’s a tip, why not wait to chime in on stuff you understand rather than all the shit u have no clue on.
The truth shall set you free:ONLY if you should so choose to TELL IT!
I will explain it once in simple terms any rational person can understand:
A.
Bob(fake person) gets COVID-19 and tells everyone who they have been in contact with= problem solved. This actually happened in one of the pool rooms I service. The person was completely asymptomatic.
or
B.
Bob(fake person) gets COVID-19 decides to only tell the APA, then the APA lets everyone know who they are and that if you have been in contact with them you may want to get tested. Problem solved.
Seems pretty simple.
Oh, you want some APA hate, here you go, I WILL BE SURPRISED IF IT EXISTS IN A YEAR and if I am wrong too bad.
TFT
People who have covid19 should not be playing in a league or socialising anyway.
I think that a person who sells, recovers, moves, levels pool tables even for leagues would want to know about a virus which could hurt him.
Thank you though Great and Powerful OZ for probably taking his argument to the APA, you are magnanimous.
Have u ever been right about anything, ever. Here’s a tip, why not wait to chime in on stuff you understand rather than all the shit u have no clue on.
C (Current APA procedure)
Bob (fake person) gets COVID-19 decides to only tell the APA, then the APA lets everyone know they've been in contact with someone who has COVID-19 and may want to get tested, but doesn't give them Bob's name, something any rational person would understand. Problem solved, right?
D (Also current procedure)
Bob and Jane (both fake people, not a couple or anything) get COVID-19 and deicde to tell only the APA, who then lets everyone know they've been in contact with someone who has COVID-19 and may want to get tested, but doesn't give them Bob's or Jane's name. What difference does it make whether you get it from Bob or Jane?
E (Why privacy matters)
Bob (fake person) gets COVID-19 decides to only tell the APA, then the APA lets everyone know they've been in contact with someone who has COVID-19 and gives everyone Bob's name. BrentFromBoston (also fake person) gets tested and it comes back positive. Brent decides he got it from Bob (even though Bob may have actually got it from Brent) and burns Bob's house down. Who is liable? Why is the name so important that you need to trample Bob's privacy?
F (Why respect of privacy matters)
Case E happens, then Jane gets tested and finds out that she also has COVID-19. She was at league on three nights but doesn't tell anyone because she likes her house. Half a dozen people contract the disease from Jane but don't show any symptoms, so they continue to spread it and eventually hundreds of people get it and some die because others didn't catch it early enough and spread it asymptomatically. Lives are lost because APA gave out the name. Without a good reason to provide the name, it would seem prudent not to. It might actually save lives.
Once again, you've given no reason why C is not sufficient. Five pages in and not a single reason why you need to know the name.
Playing Devil’s advocate. Jane is sick, the APA knows and tells her to stop. Undeterred, she signs up for some non APA weekend tourneys and them joins the ACS league on Friday nights. Many folKs from APA also play in these weekend tourneys as well as play in the ACS league. But, they had no idea this person was sick, could not protect themselves, or warn others.
Stop with the burning down your house non sense. The Gov of NY sent sick people to nursing homes and nobody is chasing him down with pitch forks after his actions killed thousands of elderly folks.
Maybe the only way to stop the spread is giving everyone the most up to date info. Either we should know or not. We have to wear masks and close our businesses but we can’t be told who has Covid in our little pool community. Most folks I know including some hollywood types announce they have it, so you know to keep distance or if you had recent contact with them,,,, letting folks know you may have unintentionally infected them can’t really be a bad thing, can it. If I get Covid I will announce it in AZB..... be selfish not to.
It’s not like telling folks you have Herpes or some other STD.
Playing Devil’s advocate. Jane is sick, the APA knows and tells her to stop. Undeterred, she signs up for some non APA weekend tourneys and them joins the ACS league on Friday nights. Many folKs from APA also play in these weekend tourneys as well as play in the ACS league. But, they had no idea this person was sick, could not protect themselves, or warn others.
Stop with the burning down your house non sense. The Gov of NY sent sick people to nursing homes and nobody is chasing him down with pitch forks after his actions killed thousands of elderly folks.
Maybe the only way to stop the spread is giving everyone the most up to date info. Either we should know or not.
We have to wear masks and close our businesses but we can’t be told who has Covid in our little pool community. Most folks I know including some hollywood types announce they have it, so you know to keep distance or if you had recent contact with them,,,, letting folks know you may have unintentionally infected them can’t really be a bad thing, can it. If I get Covid I will announce it in AZB..... be selfish not to.
It’s not like telling folks you have Herpes or some other STD.